The 2023 Minicomic Award Winners Have Been Announced!
The 2023 Minicomic Award winners have been announced; the second year of an initiative to spotlight “the unique and challenging work in this underrecognized short form medium.” The event was…
Author: Andy Oliver
Standing Outside the Station, Sweating – Alex Potts Flirts with the Nihilistic in Another Collection of Wittily Dry Autobio Comics
There has always been something incongruously appealing about the gloomy existentialism to be found in the comic strips of Alex Potts. The long-time UK small press figure is probably best…
The Forest – An Eerie Journey Into Loss and Grief from Thomas Ott and Fantagraphics Books
Seeking to escape the grim atmosphere of a family wake, a young boy slips out of his home and into the dark forest that surrounds it. There, amongst its foreboding…
New Initiative the Cartoonist Cooperative Launches with the Empowerment of Artists and an Anti-Capitalist Ethos in Mind
So here’s an initiative we can really get behind here at Broken Frontier. The Cartoonist Cooperative is a new collective-style venture that looks to support fellow artists in their creative…
The Magic Necklace – Claire Napier’s Erotic Thriller Proves to Be a Brooding Piece of Horror Romance
Horror and romance. Two genres that for some may, on first consideration, seem diametrically opposed in tone but on reflection, of course, make perfect bedfellows. Claire Napier’s one-shot comic The…
The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act – Desmond Reed’s Darkly Comedic Graphic Novel Combines the Psychedelic and the Profound
Part of the final line-up of books to be published by US indie micropress Birdcage Bottom Books (and currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter here) Desmond Reed’s The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening…
“Enjoy Whatever You’re Working on Now and Get it Out There” – John-Paul Kamath on Self-Publishing and the Landmark Tenth Issue of ‘London Horror Comic’
If you’ve been attending UK comics festivals and cons to any degree in the last 15 years it’s very unlikely that you haven’t at some point encountered British small press…
Momotekku – Themes of Self-Discovery, Acceptance and Rebirth Run through Alxndra Cook’s First Impressive Long-Form Work from Koguchi Press
Momotekku is the first published graphic novella outside of self-published comics from 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Alxndra Cook. It brings together all the staples of her sequential…
Rituals – Nicole Goux and Silver Sprocket Take Us through the “Sacred Rites” Before a Night Out
If you are a fan of a particular comics artist’s work then the advantage of projects like Nicole Goux’s Rituals – a self-described mini-art book of illustrations from Silver Sprocket…
Retroflect: Wasteland – An Appreciation of DC’s Forgotten 1980s Horror Anthology Series
Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column here in the past. Today we return for the first time…
Image! 30th Anniversary Anthology #10 – Zoe Thorogood and Gustaffo Vargas Are Just Two of the Major New Talents on Show as Image’s Birthday Celebrations Enter the Final Phase
Monthly serialised comics anthologies are a curious thing. We wax nostalgically about the days when they seemed ubiquitous and yet the reality is that in an era of instantly consumable…
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure – Lewis Hancox’s Graphic Memoir is a Raw, Witty and Tender Tale Fully Deserving of Its Critical Acclaim
There’s an early scene in Lewis Hancox’s Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure that looks back to his pre-transition schooldays as Lois and being referred to by classmates…
Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic About Workers & Their Unions – Sam Wallman’s Graphic Journalism is a Call to Mobilise and a Damning Indictment of the Tyranny of Capitalism
A book detailing the history of the trade union movement in comics form would, of course, always be a project that we would gravitate to here at Broken Frontier. With…
“It’s Essential We Acquire First-Hand, Primary Sources of Personal Anecdotes and Memories” – Mathew Klickstein on the Archival Importance of ‘See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture’
Mathew Klickstein’s ambitious project See You at San Diego from Fantagraphics Books is described as a “comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate,…
Estrela d’Oeste – Ashling Larkin’s Beautifully Understated Autobio Comic Tackles Themes of Identity, Grief, Xenophobia and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Estrela d’Oeste, or “Star of the West” if you require a direct translation, is an autobiographical one-shot by Brazilian-Irish artist Ashling Larkin (also known as Ashling Draws) whose comics endeavours…
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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2023 – Spotlighting the Work of Becca “Beck” Kubrick, Ed Firth, J Webster Sharp, Kry Garcia, Rachel Tubb and Xiaoyi Hu
Welcome to our Broken Frontier Six to Watch 2023 announcement! But before we look forward let’s quickly look back. In 2022 the UK small press world slowly began to emerge…
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“The Emotions All Hit Me After I Released ‘Daddy'” – Beatrice Mossman on Tactile Presentation in Comics, Allegorical Narrative, and the Sensitivity of Autobio Work
Beatrice Mossman has been cultivating a growing audience of admirers over the last couple of years for her tactile, experimental comics that have their roots in horror motifs, coming-of-age standards,…
Our Stories Carried Us Here – Green Card Voices Bring Us a Powerful Sequential Art Antidote to Toxic Media Coverage of Immigration and the Refugee Crisis
The plight of those affected by the refugee crisis has been conveyed to wider audiences with great empathy by many comics projects over the last decade, both online and in…
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Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025